National Institute for Testing & Evaluation Information

Before the establishment of NITE, each university's admissions department administered the institution's own entrance examination, and anyone applying to more than one university was required to take separate tests for each one. The establishment of NITE made it easier for students to apply to more than one educational institution. It brought together experts in testing and evaluation in order to construct a unified, professional, efficient, and fair test battery that would predict success in academic studies, and supplied academic institutions with professional tools for the admission and placement of applicants in various fields of study. Thus, the establishment of NITE improved and streamlined the higher education admissions procedure. In the years since its establishment, NITE has won recognition as one of the world's leading institutions in the development of tools for testing and evaluation, especially admissions, placement, and accreditation tests for institutions of higher education. NITE is a registered non-profit organization whose members are the founding universities: BenGurion University of the Negev, BarIlan University, the University of Haifa, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Tel Aviv University, and the Technion. As a public, non-profit organization, NITE is funded entirely by the fees charged for the tests that it administers and its other activities, without support from any outside body. Objectives of the Organization